The American Surgical Association is the oldest surgical organization in the United States.
History
It was founded in 1880. Their publication, ''
Annals of Surgery
The ''Annals of Surgery'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of surgical science and practice. It was started in 1885 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (United States, United Kingdom).
See also
* List of medical journals
References
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'', was started in 1885.
A collection of the association's papers are held at the
National Library of Medicine
The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library.
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Samuel D. Gross
Samuel David Gross (July 8, 1805 – May 6, 1884) was an American academic trauma surgeon. Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross "The Nestor of American Surgery." He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins' ''The Gross Clinic'' (1875), a ...
(1880)
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Edward Mott Moore (1883)
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William Thompson Briggs (1884)
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Moses Gunn
Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company. His 1962 off-Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's ''The Blacks,'' and ...
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Hunter McGuire
Hunter Holmes McGuire (October 11, 1835 – September 19, 1900) was a soldier, physician, teacher, and orator. McGuire was a surgeon in the Confederate Army attached to Stonewall Jackson's command, and he continued serving with the Army of Nor ...
(1886)
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David Hayes Agnew
David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818March 22, 1892) was an American surgery, surgeon.
Biography
Agnew was born on November 24, 1818, Nobleville, Pennsylvania (present-day Christiana, Pennsylvania, Christiana). His parents were Robert Agnew and ...
(1887)
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David Williams Cheever (1888)
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David W. Yandell (1889)
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Claudius Henry Mastin (1890)
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Phineas Sanborn Conner (1891)
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Nicholas Senn
Nicholas Senn (October 31, 1844 – January 2, 1908) was a Swiss born American surgeon, instructor, and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He served as the president of the American Medical Association in 1897– ...
(1892)
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James Ewing Mears (1893)
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Frederic Shepard Dennis (1894)
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Louis McLane Tiffany (1895)
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John Collins Warren
John Collins Warren (August 1, 1778 – May 4, 1856) was an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstrat ...
(1896)
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Theodore F. Prewitt (1897)
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William W. Keen (1898)
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Robert F. Weir (1899)
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Roswell Park (1900)
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Deforest Willard (1901)
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Maurice H. Richardson (1902)
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Nathaniel P. Dandridge (1903)
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George Ben Johnston (1904)
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Albert Vander Veer (1905)
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Dudley Peter Allen (1906)
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William H. Carmalt (1907)
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C. B. De Nancre´ De (1908)
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Rudolph Matas
Rudolph Matas (September 12, 1860 – September 23, 1957) was an American surgeon. He was born outside New Orleans in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and spent much of his childhood in his parents' native land of Spain. Matas returned to New Or ...
(1909)
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Richard H. Harte (1910)
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Arpad G. Gerster (1911)
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Charles A. Powers (1912)
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William James Mayo
William James Mayo (June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practic ...
(1913)
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George E. Armstrong (1914)
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Robert G. Leconte (1915)
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Samuel J. Mixter (1916)
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Thomas W. Huntington (1917)
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Lewis S. Pilcher (1918)
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George Emerson Brewer
George Emerson Brewer (July 28, 1861 – December 24, 1939) was an American surgeon and urologist known for his contributions to the eponymous Brewer infarcts.
Biography
George Brewer was born on 28 July 1861 in Westfield, New York, the son ...
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John B. Roberts (1920)
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John Miller Turpin Finney (1921)
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L. L. McArthur (1922)
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George Washington Crile
George Washington Crile (November 11, 1864 – January 7, 1943) was an American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion. He contributed to other procedures, such as neck di ...
(1923)
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Albert J. Ochsner (1924)
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John H. Gibbon Sr. (1925)
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Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. ...
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Emmet Rixford
Emmet may refer to:
Places Australia
* Emmet, Queensland
Germany
* Emmet (Upland), a mountain in Hesse
United States
* Emmet, Arkansas
* Emmet, Nebraska
* Emmet, North Dakota
* Emmet, South Dakota
* Emmet, Dodge County, Wisconsin, a town
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(1927)
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Ellsworth Eliot Jr. (1928)
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Fred B. Lund (1929)
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Alexander Primrose (1930)
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Charles Horace Mayo
Charles Horace Mayo (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939) was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry ...
(1931)
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Arthur Dean Bevan (1932)
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Daniel Fiske Jones (1933)
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Edward William Archibald
Edward William Archibald (August 5, 1872 – December 17, 1945) was a Canadian surgeon. Archibald was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received his initial education in Grenoble, France. Upon returning to Canada, he attended McGill Univers ...
(1934)
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Eugene H. Pool (1935)
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Evarts Ambrose Graham
Evarts Ambrose Graham (1883–1957) was an American academic, physician, and surgeon.
Early years and military service
Born in Chicago, Illinois to a surgeon, Dr. David Wilson Graham, and Ida Ansbach Barned Graham, Evarts attended college at Prin ...
(1936)
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Arthur W. Elting (1937)
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Dallas B. Phemister (1938)
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Allen Whipple
Allen Oldfather Whipple (September 2, 1881 – April 6, 1963) was an American surgeon who is known for the pancreatic cancer operation which bears his name (the Whipple procedure) as well as Whipple's triad.
Whipple was born to missionary paren ...
(1939)
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David Cheever (1940)
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Harvey B. Stone (1941)
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Vernon C. David (1942)
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Frederick A. Coller (1943)
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William Darrach (1944–45)
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Edward Delos Churchill (1946)
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Elliott Cutler
Elliot Carr Cutler (July 30, 1888 – August 16, 1947) was an American surgeon, military physician, and medical educator. He was Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1932 t ...
(1947)
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William Gallie William Edward Gallie (January 29, 1882 – September 25, 1959) was a Canadian medical educator and orthopedic surgeon.
He was born in Barrie, Ontario, studied medicine at the University of Toronto and interned at The Hospital for Sick Childr ...
(1947)
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Fred Wharton Rankin (1948)
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Thomas G. Orr (1949)
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Samuel Clark Harvey (1950)
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Daniel C. Elkin (1951)
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Robert S. Dinsmore (1952)
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Howard Christian Naffziger (1953)
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John Heysham Gibbon
John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903 – February 5, 1973) was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgery, open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surger ...
(1954)
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Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as Tetralogy of Fallot— commonly known as Blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from h ...
(1955)
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Loyal Davis (1956)
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John H. Mulholland (1957)
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I. S. Ravdin (1958)
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Warren Henry Cole (1959)
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John D. Stewart (1960)
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J. Englebert Dunphy (1961)
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Oliver Cope (1962)
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Warfield M. Firor (1963)
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Robert M. Zollinger (1964)
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Leland S. McKittrick (1965)
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Oscar Creech Jr. (1966)
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William P. Longmire Jr. (1967)
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Owen Harding Wangensteen
Owen Harding Wangensteen (September 21, 1898 – January 13, 1981) was an American surgeon who developed the Wangensteen tube, which used suction to treat small bowel obstruction, an innovation estimated to have saved a million lives by the tim ...
(1968)
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William A. Altemeier (1969)
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William D. Holden (1970)
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Francis Daniels Moore (1971)
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Jonathan E. Rhoads (1972)
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H. William Scott Jr. (1973)
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William H. Muller Jr. (1974)
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James Hardy (1975)
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Claude E. Welch
Claude Emerson Welch (March 14, 1906 – March 9, 1996) was an American surgeon who was internationally recognized,O'Shea, Arthur, "Dr. Claude E. Welch; Retired Senior Attending Surgeon at MGH", ''The Boston Globe'', March 1996. and whose ...
(1976)
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David Sabiston (1977)
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Oliver H. Beahrs (1978)
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Tom Shires (1979)
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James V. Maloney Jr. (1980)
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C. Rollins Hanlon (1981)
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W. Dean Warren (1982)
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Mark M. Ravitch Mark Mitchell Ravitch (September 12, 1910 – March 1, 1989) was an American surgeon. He pioneered the use of surgical staples, the treatment of chest wall deformities, and non-operative management of intussusception.
Early life and education
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Eugene M. Bricker (1984)
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W. Gerald Austen (1985)
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Charles George Drake
Charles George Drake (July 21, 1920 – September 15, 1998) was a Canadian neurosurgeon known for his work on treating aneurysms.
Born in Windsor, Ontario, he received his BSc and MD degrees from The University of Western Ontario.
From 1974 un ...
(1986)
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Henry T. Bahnson (1987)
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John Najarian (1988)
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John A. Mannick (1989)
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Robert Zeppa (1990)
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James C. Thompson (1991)
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Lloyd D. MacLean (1992)
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Seymour I. Schwartz (1993)
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George F. Sheldon (1994)
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Samuel A. Wells Jr.
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...
(1995)
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Clyde F. Barker (1996)
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Frank C. Spencer (1997)
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Lazar J. Greenfield (1998)
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Basil A. Pruitt Jr. (1999)
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John L. Cameron (2000)
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Haile Debas
Haile Debas (born 1937, AsmaraFikes, RobertHaile Debas T. (1937- )at blackpast.org) is an Eritrean physician and academic administrator at the University of California, San Francisco.
Life
Haile T. Debas was born in Asmara, Eritrea, in 1937. Fo ...
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Murray Brennan
Sir Murray Frederick Brennan (born 2 April 1940) is a New Zealand surgeon, oncologist, cancer researcher, and academic. From 1985 to 2006, he was chairman of the surgery department of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, ...
(2002)
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R. Scott Jones (2003)
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Hiram Polk (2004)
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Carlos Alberto Pellegrini
Carlos Alberto Pellegrini is the former president of the American Surgical Association and the current Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Washington. He is a former president of the Society of Surgical Chairs, a ...
(2005)
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Jay L. Grosfeld (2006)
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Courtney M. Townsend Jr. (2007)
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Anthony D. Whittemore (2008)
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Donald Trunkey (2009)
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Kirby I. Bland (2010)
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Timothy J. Eberlein (2011)
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L.D. Britt (2012)
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Layton F. Rikkers (2013)
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Anna M. Ledgerwood (2014)
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James S. Economou (2015)
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Keith D. Lillemoe (2016)
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Ronald V. Maier (2017)
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E. Christopher Ellison (2018)
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Robin S. McLeod (2019, 2020)
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Selwyn M. Vickers (2021)
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Diana L. Farmer (2022)
Awards
*American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship Research Award
*ASA Medallion for Scientific Achievement
*ASA
Flance-Karl Award
References
External links
American Surgical Association Archives (1878-2009)€”National Library of Medicine finding aid
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